Æ31 - Gallienus (sole reign) (ΑΙΖΑΝΕΙΤΩΝ)

Aezani, situated in Phrygia, was one of the more prosperous cities of the Sardis conventus, its wealth rooted in a thriving wool trade and underpinned by some of the best-preserved temple architecture in all of Asia Minor. Civic bronze continued to be struck there into the sole reign of Gallienus, years during which the Roman state was under extraordinary military strain — the Alamanni had broken into Italy, Postumus had split off the Gallic Empire, and Odaenathus of Palmyra was effectively running the eastern frontier independently.

Aezani's mint activity under Gallienus places this piece in the final generation of Greek Imperial civic coinage before the practice collapsed entirely across Asia Minor.